and i'm sure other streaming media devices as well, Roku et al.

I think, Joe, that there is a shift afoot... away from DirecTV and Dish and even Cable.. toward online services. That's both good and bad for me... very convenient, much cheaper, BUT... it requires very fast broadband - something that we will NEVER get where I live. We're are always on the low end of the totem pole. We get upgrades but they extremely expensive and always at the very bottom of current tech. We get the 'hand me downs'.